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The Marketplace of IdeasMon, 19 Mar 2018 23:01:53 +0200en-UShourly1ISIS is abhorrent, but it’s certainly not in controlhttp://blogs.timesofisrael.com/isis-is-abhorrent-but-its-certainly-not-in-control/
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/isis-is-abhorrent-but-its-certainly-not-in-control/#commentsThu, 19 Jun 2014 18:18:55 +0000http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=297982Mark Twain once ventured that “history may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” Amid images of mass executions and talk of a new fundamentalist state emerging in the Middle East, it seems that the initial verse of contemporary Syrian history is barely to be written before its analogue in Iraq is hastily cobbled together, […]

]]>http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/isis-is-abhorrent-but-its-certainly-not-in-control/feed/5Are Tehran’s death squads wiping out Maliki’s Shiite rivals in Iraq?http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/are-tehrans-death-squads-wiping-out-malikis-shiite-rivals-in-iraq/
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/are-tehrans-death-squads-wiping-out-malikis-shiite-rivals-in-iraq/#commentsSat, 15 Feb 2014 12:54:33 +0000http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=238902The Iraqi Government has shelled one of their own hospitals for the seventh day in a row. Why? Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is ostensibly fighting the Sunni-fundamentalist organisation ISIS, and has launched a campaign of terror in across the country, supported by some tribal leaders and Shiite militias, directed by Iranian Qods Force operatives. The […]

]]>http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/are-tehrans-death-squads-wiping-out-malikis-shiite-rivals-in-iraq/feed/3Iranian diaspora condemns Geneva interim agreementhttp://blogs.timesofisrael.com/iranian-diaspora-condemns-geneva-interim-agreement/
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/iranian-diaspora-condemns-geneva-interim-agreement/#respondWed, 12 Feb 2014 01:55:27 +0000http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=236436Last Saturday, on the eve of 35th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, members from over 300 Iranian Associations from around the world met for the first time to condemn November’s interim agreement struck between the international community and the Islamic Republic in Geneva. The Iran Convention, made up of Iranian diaspora organisations from around the […]

]]>http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/iranian-diaspora-condemns-geneva-interim-agreement/feed/0The September 1st Massacrehttp://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-september-1st-massacre/
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-september-1st-massacre/#respondSun, 01 Sep 2013 11:30:33 +0000http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=163754The Iraqi Army today launched a major assault on a small group of unarmed Iranian dissidents living in the east of the country, killing forty-four and wounding many more. Nearly half of the residents at Camp Ashraf in Diyala province are now confirmed dead, with many more in a critical condition. The dead are members […]

]]>http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-september-1st-massacre/feed/0From Paris to Tehranhttp://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-long-road-to-tehran/
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-long-road-to-tehran/#commentsMon, 22 Jul 2013 12:25:06 +0000http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=148494The suburban serenity of Villepinte, for most of the year, is disturbed only by planes flying to and from nearby Charles De Gaulle Airport. Yet, on one day late in June, this otherwise sleepy community on the outskirts of Paris plays host to over 100,000 flag-waving activists and supporters, who travel from all over the […]

]]>http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-long-road-to-tehran/feed/1As Rouhani toasts success, Iran’s real moderates slainhttp://blogs.timesofisrael.com/as-rouhani-toasts-success-irans-real-moderates-slain/
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/as-rouhani-toasts-success-irans-real-moderates-slain/#respondTue, 18 Jun 2013 21:14:02 +0000http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=136738Just hours after Iranians went to – or in many cases, boycotted – the polls to choose a new president in an election described by commentators as a sham, Iranian dissidents at Camp Liberty outside Baghdad came under a deadly mortar attack which has left two dead and more than seventy wounded. The camp, housing […]

]]>http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/as-rouhani-toasts-success-irans-real-moderates-slain/feed/0I hate to break it to you… Extremism is rife on campushttp://blogs.timesofisrael.com/i-hate-to-break-it-to-you-extremism-is-rife-on-campus/
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/i-hate-to-break-it-to-you-extremism-is-rife-on-campus/#commentsFri, 08 Mar 2013 20:16:57 +0000http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=108460I read with real interest the article by Laura Kam about anti-Zionism on university campuses in the United States and in Britain. Based on my own experiences as a student, I’d like to paint a different picture – one of which many are just starting to become aware – of British universities becoming the home […]

]]>http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/i-hate-to-break-it-to-you-extremism-is-rife-on-campus/feed/7Why has Martin Kobler still got a job?http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/is-it-time-to-fire-martin-kobler/
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/is-it-time-to-fire-martin-kobler/#commentsTue, 19 Feb 2013 10:28:33 +0000http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=103912Martin Kobler, head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), has once again snubbed the former Ashraf City residents currently detained at Camp Hurriyah (AKA “Camp Liberty”) outside of Baghdad. The camp, which holds 3,100 Iranian political refugees in conditions described by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention as being “synonymous with […]